Washington, November 26 : Australian researchers at the University of Melbourne say that the exponential growth of high speed broadband will create an energy bottleneck in the coming years.

Dr. Kerry Hinton, from the university’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the ARC Special Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN), claims to have identified the major contributors to Internet power consumption as the take-up of broadband services grows.

“It has now become clear that the exponential growth of the Internet is not sustainable,” said Dr. Hinton.

A latest research conducted in Britain has claimed that Emails, which is considered to be the most popular mode of communication online, actually wastes an hour a day. 

The researchers discovered that people working at the offices actually waste an hour a day sending and receiving emails. Further, the obsession has led to a culture in which many process them without even thinking. 

The findings have been based by conducting a survey on 4,000 employees from 150 business houses in Britain. 

Google is all set to open its search results to annotation, alteration, and public comment with the aim to enhance user engagement and improve ad revenue potential. 

On Thursday, Google unveiled SearchWiki, a way to customize search results as they appear to one specific Google Account. The good thing is that users can re-rank search results, delete them, add new ones, and maintain notes about specific sites. 

The latest report prepared for the Broadband Forum by research firm Point Topic, reveals that the total number of broadband subscribers globally has reached a whopping 400 million. The report also specifies that the tremendous growth in subscribers is due to technological developments and increased geographical spread. 

If compared, back in the year 1998, there were only 57,200 broadband subscribers globally, in the following 12 months; they increased nearly six fold reaching up to 280,890 in 1999. The customers prefer fast speed broadband connection the most, and reportedly there has been 600,000% increase in the number of subscribers in the past ten years, with a 300% increase in the last five years alone, to now reach 400mn. 

Washington, Nov 22: For today’s 20-somethings, communication has been restricted to social networking sites like Facebook and iPhones, making it difficult for them to deal with face-to-face interactions.

London, Nov 20: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites because they are immoral and anti-social,” according to reports.

The Iranian ban includes many news sites, Sky News reported.

Internet service providers have been told over the years to block access to political, human rights and women’s sites, as well as anything deemed pornographic or anti-Islamic.

The country’s 21 million Internet users will now also be prevented from viewing weblogs expressing dissent, along with popular sites as Facebook and YouTube.